Enrico Pace plays Liszt - Totentanz (part 2 of 2)

[maxbigazzi]

OH MY GOD!!!

[jositaJea]

1:12 useless vibrato attempt XD

[vanburikwouter]

@jositaJea He mistook it for a violin;)

[markmarshall39]

enrico and kissin goes to the same hair stylist:)

[jon6440]

@markmarshall39 LOOOL

[fierydog]

I don't know if any piano composition displays utter virtuosity more than this. Sure it is harder to perform Rakhmaninov 3 or Prokofiev 2 - but this is utter virtuosity from the first minute to the last. It is stunning every time I come back to this.

[teresavivarium]

Dies irae dies illa, solvet secula in favilla. 

[shesaidicutendaface]

That is insane

[TheNewCW]

HE IS SWEATING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LazyBastard69]

@TheNewCW Of course he is sweating! He's playing in competition and c'mon, it's motherfucking liszt!!

[Panzonfeo]

tienes que pasar por muchas cosas y luego volverte loco y creer que ahora eres un piano para poder tocar asi

[violinlurrve]

wow he must have been tired flat out!!

[DVBooks]

Utterly fantastic! 

[yellowboi77]

Bravo!!!

[mafbuz]

3:09 MIIIIIIIIIITICO

[mrbbartok]

The pianist is great and all, but we really have to admiring the technique of that triangle player.

[DDauvel26260]

Wow... amazing, even though i still think this piece doesn't need any orchestra, for it spoils the piano. For Liszt, the piano was the orchestra in itself.

[aljaesson]

I wish I was the triangle player for this. Least epic instrument for such an epic song

[TheSon104]

Every single note Enrico played was right. This piece is incredibly difficult, but Enrico Pace mastered it unbelievably. Guess, why you seldom or never hear it on stage!

Kind regards!

[AngeluaCristaia398]

héh_I_feÉl_sö_lõnÊly_tÒdàý

[Vesivian]

Was he crying?

[composer369]

@Vesivian I think what you see is sweat. Compare what you see at 3:15 and just after to the end.

[adrsea]

What unbelievable technique-amazing player! :)

[jositaJea]

love Enrico at 3:21, he looks around, like he's thinking: "I'm so good I don't even have to look at what I'm playing", then messes up XD

Lots of wrong notes, but really like how he interprets certain parts

[oOFranCescA2080oO]

@jositaJea i dont' think 'normal' people will see the mistakes xD .. this is EPIC anyway

[jon6440]

@jositaJea he didnt actually mess up, im learning the piece and i compared it, and he played it correctly note for note :D

[Ravel87]

this is why Liszt completely pwns Chopin

[daledaddy1]

French horns at 1:20 with Enrico playing that haunting delicate melody after gave me the chills. Absolutely brilliant composition and playing.  I saw this piece played by the Grand Rapids Symphony last week (Michigan) and had to hear it again. Thanks for the wonderful post!

[cedricrlongreen]

Yeah they better stand lol... Liszt was already my favorite composer but after this.....I'm just at a lost for words. This is probably Liszt's best composition.

[1Thompsonmusic]

@cedricrlongreen

I think him, Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin are the greatest composers for the piano.

[jonathannguetti]

@1Thompsonmusic +Scriabin no?

[musicfanof]

@1Thompsonmusic rachmaninov???

[cafity]

@1Thompsonmusic You should hear his raphsody in a theme of paganini, it's almost identical to this (in character, of course) :)

[operaemi]

you can tell he was having fun with this piece, i love when musicians are having fun, it always makes watching them that much more enjoyable

[CraigBarduk]

I'm not a classically trained musician or anything, but this was awesome. I love seeing highly skilled musicians deliver such passionate performances, makes me enjoy it all a little more.

[brianmiddletonart]

This is a STUNNING performance! He deserves every ounce of the applause.

[zephof]

I'm a decades long Liszt warhorse and this is one of the best totentanz renditions that I've heard. Once years ago Andre Watts blew the roof off the hall with his rendition some thirty years ago if I remember correctly. 

[cedricrlongreen]

@zephof OMG I did a masterclass with Andre Watts when I was in the Young Musician's Program at UC Berkeley! I missed my airplane to my senior trip for that masterclass. (2006) The piece I played was pretty simple though (Debussy prelude "Le Vent Dans Le Plaine") compared to Liszt's"Totentanz" lol. Closest thing I've played to that is his Transcendental Etude no.10 lol(not quite finished)

[LisztBusoni]

Yes, Pace is a good pianist, in his repertory are the best, but the Totentanz are Michelangeli's piece. No one is better than he in Danse Macabre.

[photoeditingchicken]

@LisztBusoni Michelangeli, Zimerman, Pace, and...the guy who died in a car accident young...my favorites, depending on my mood. Yes, I DEFINITELY overlisten to this concerto ;)

[BenUriyahMay]

I wish he played without the orchestra but it is cool. I've never liked orchestral music till tonight. I still don't much though..

[LAnonHubbard]

Please also have a look at the solo version recently uploaded by Valentina Lisitsa. Amazing!

[richclayderman]

I'm gonna use my beset vocabulary to describe this:...... This is hot shit, dude!

[MoldiMestre]

Muito bommm Essa é uma das músicas que eu mais gosto

[WOWdato]

What a great emotions come from his perfomance... he;s great !

Gratz

[adamjthompson]

This video has 2 dislikes. How could you possibly dislike this?! :-P

[Cleamena]

@adamjthompson that was what I was wondering with the first part too...and the first part had 12 dislikes...I was like, "WTF??"

[Pirotechnik1995]

W o W ! Enrico Pace is a great pianist!!! He has an incredible technics. I played 6th Hungary rapsody but only now I can see what is a really hard piece . Today I go to rent partiture :D

[avalanche183]

WHY ARE THERE EMPTY SEATS @ 5:22?!  Phail. Netherlands FTL.

[PimpinBassie2]

He plays the 'skeleton' part a bit too fast.

[candoyja]

This could the most demanding and difficult piece for the piano ever.

Godly performance....

I am speechless.

[dcharlton246]

I am playing this for my senior solo, crazy fast tempo @3:30!

[AIJohnsen]

Fantastic!...........but who won the competition?

[jtdhorn]

@AIJohnsen he did

[ilwmb]

@AIJohnsen Pace

[OceanbornSWT]

@AIJohnsen Him! (Of course)

[imbalopolis]

this is against god its so good. a idol deserving of the worship. he might even be ok with it.

[Chopianist3]

I have to admit, I wish those triangle notes were a bit more stacatto...jokes :D Triangle Soloist ftw!! :P

[Cleamena]

I could watch and listen to this all day...

[richclayderman]

such powerful composition one of the best by Liszt

[wurlitzer165]

I think that was his last piece that was played by Alexander Kelberine before he commited sucide in 1940.

[afertyus1000]

yes he probably broke his nail:)

[fgarnold]

Bravissimo. Wonderfully energetic performance. Tempi variation was a bit more pronounced than you usually hear, but all was well-considered and effective.

Kudos to il signor Pace - a performance to take great pride in. I'm sure Liszt would have been pleased.

[MJLatora]

The pianist's hands at 3:35.

Jesus Christ !

[armeinify]

yup :D it looks like he's in 200% speed, it's amazing

[daviddipan]

1:43 wonderful !!!

[christie006123]

this is the reason why i love music.

[funnybooboo8]

2:50 is such a dance moment :P

[skillbill83]

My favourite part is at 4:00.

The sound and even the way he plays is so dramatic and dark.

[richclayderman]

WOW

[SordidGuy]

I cannot help but comment again.  Pace has the PERFECT hands for Liszt! This just absolutely stuns me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zephof]

@Sordid

Quite correct good span, long slender powerful fingers, WOW!!!

[LtTemeraire]

that was extremely awesome Oo

[HamJoGo]

AMAZING!!!!

[SordidGuy]

ABSOLUTELY STUPENDOUS!!!!!!

[PlayersGarden]

Superb! Bravo! Awesome good!

Is there anything like this at our time right now?

[chillywilly8033]

good one music now days sucks!!!

[SordidGuy]

Sorry - I meant to give you a "thumbs up". Clicked the wrong icon......My bad......

[armeinify]

it was totally AWESOME! at 2:40 I can't see his left hand! and starting from 4:00 I just can't imagine that anybody could move and play like this. and this octaves... I'm absolutely jealous. :)

[martindrago2]

NICE!!!!!!! BRAVO

Seu madruga!

[Asgoodasgod]

Impresionante!!!!! Bravo!!!!!!

[Chopianist3]

DAMN STRAIGHT!!! :) Those octaves play bloody hard (too bad the triangle can't play them for you)

[GreatUnwashedMass]

Needs more triangle!

[TheJoyfulPianist]

I need a cowbell with the triangle.

[mrchopin89]

It's dance of the death..but it seems like a birthday party..

[Alexjr1543]

All I can say is that this is AWESOME. My new favourite piece of music.

[Shabannie]

Such beautiful music!

-------Ellen

[virtuososevilla]

increiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibleeeeee­eeeeeee

me encanta enrico pace

magnifica interpretacion!!!!!!

[armantradinga1]

ahhh do me now enrico! i love him and this is beyond amazing. definitely the best interpretation i have seen yet.

[OrangeSodaKing]

AWESOME AWESOME ENDING.

Would BLOW my socks off if I saw it live.

Hehehe, standing ovation and flowers AT A COMPETITION. (Is that often?)

[cheecheepong]

lol. I think Enrico Pace made it look like a concert instead of a competition. =P

[jlfnetto]

I totaly agree with you. He is such a pianist.

[tucciofumarola]

Impareggiabile esecuzione....un sogno!

[dsyglym]

Wow 3:35 incredible octaves!!!

[ji94552]

He plays like he's possessed. Love this performance.

[bemasher]

0:31 is incredible!

[adiehl]

3:53 - 4:32 ftw

[InSaneTK]

The ending is phenomenal. No one in the modern time that I've heard have ever been able to finish a piece with as much power, charm and brilliance as the classical composers. (beethoven, liszt, tchakovsky, bach, and so on)

[Appassionata90]

very great!

[Ellinidara]

Enrico absolute genius.

[OrangeSodaKing]

Yeah. But did you hear how many notes he got right?

[photoeditingchicken]

@OrangeSodaKing Well put, person I patronizingly 'advised'! ;)

[LazyBastard69]

@OrangeSodaKing You mean the triangle player, right?

[pookiehohn]

Whoopty-fucking-do.

[Hervinbalfour]

People constantly seem to look for artists to make a mistakes like they are GODs. This performance is easily one of the best if not THE BEST interpretation on this hardly performed work. He did a damn great job and deserved his win.

[ufoka01]

Great show. Many thanks for posting. Cziffra is different but also awesome.

[JackWild67]

Enrico Pace is extremely good at the piano. I would say he is the best i have ever heard....so far.I have listen to quite a few since i have been seeing them on YouTube. This guy is good. He seems to be precise yet passionate. And in good balance with both. Hard to do. He does it well. Kudos to Mr Pace : )

[OrangeSodaKing]

I wouldn't say he's the best in the world-there are so many really good pianists, it's impossible to decide who's the best.

However, Pace IS the best at playing Totentanz. This makes Cziffra's recording sound obsolete!

[danbroadbent]

They should be ashamed for only applauding for about 1.5 minutes.

[cocoders]

no wonder they said Liszt signed a pact with the devil... it's really like almost impossible to play his pieces... i think my fingers will cramp up and i will just die halfway thru playing it.

[Xuboy007]

i have no idea how he gets through it the way he plays, - fingers xD no clue lol...i find the only way of actually getting through the piece is more forearm work which doesnt cramp up ur muscles :) (healthy tip) :P :)

[silvius87]

Dal vivo è una cosa indescrivibile ineffabile, ha un'espressività assoluta!!!!

[OrangeSodaKing]

The ending still blows my socks off every time. Liszt was a genius, and Pace and the conductor executed this masterpiece perfectly!

[livelylark]

this is just absolutely amazing!

[Morganaxx82]

meravigliosooo!!!!!

[Irelandlass7789]

sweeet....

[Alexias030692]

Why is it at the very end some pianists play a decending chromatic scale in octaves while some (say Alfred Brendel's recording with Bernard Haitink for example) play an ascending chromatic scale in octaves? I'm sure the score says a decending scale and yet, the original version has no piano part whatsoever at the coda.

[OrangeSodaKing]

Yeah, the score i found uses descending scales, but there's another recording of Pace playing Totentanz on youtube, and he also used the ascending scales. I personally like descending, because it adds more to the big finish-like everything coming to a close.

[gio10bo]

incredibile, e pensare che a solo 10 dita.

[goobleglob]

hmm looks like paderewski

[Timmytimtimtm]

it;s not hard to choose the right winner pianist

[nazarian3]

2.50 - 3.05, are they clapping? I hear like claps, but maybe is another instrument.

[yumpingyiminy]

The string section is playing "col legno", which means they hit strings with the wooden part of the bow. Kinda sounds like clapping :P

[Danishpianist]

Oh.. thats so cool :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[Danishpianist]

haha some percussion instrument...

[FrankMazeppa]

it's trying to mimic the sound of dancing bones

[OrangeSodaKing]

that's so cool!

[cheecheepong]

wow. I played this song in my orchestra as a first violin and it's still my favorite piano piece. pace's intensity and concentration is admirable.

[OrangeSodaKing]

3:31-end

AWESOME!

the whole theme-variation sort of thingy in this vid is great

[XxRuShIexX]

Wow! Im flabbergasted after watching that great performance! This is one of my favourite piano concertos. Of course you need large hands to cope with the range and reflexes. I think Prokofiev's Piano Concerto no.2 in Gm is also one of the hardest to learn and you obviously need large hands to play that too. Prokofiev has got to be up there with liszt. (i don't mean in heaven!!) Pace really caught the beast in this piece and the ethereal moments, which is typical of Liszt's style.

[sellhighandsplit]

i love totantanz. this pianist plays so well, and i enjoy hearing him and watching him play the piano.

[adonist7]

wow, he's insane! amazing

[PjGalapatz]

WOW!! so amazing!!! magnificent!!

i'm juzt curious, which is more difficult: "Totentanz(Liszt)" or "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini(Rachmaninoff)"

pls. reply to those who are concerned!!

thnx!!

[indotje81]

You should ask mr. Pace since he played both works!! My guess is that the totentanz is more demanding..but I never played those works

[PjGalapatz]

ahh!! ok!! thnx for your reply!!

i appreciate it!!

[indotje81]

Pace still plays the Paganini variations regulary,,but never the totentanz any more..

Also Igor Roma has a VERY good performance of the Totentanz (also here on youtube)

[SergeiReiter]

LOL LOL exactly MR. Pace knows it best and also probably the great Gyorgy CZIFFRA..

[OrangeSodaKing]

totentanz is SO much harder, IMO.

[Androslav]

agree..totentanz is way harder.

[sellhighandsplit]

i think that "Totantanz(Liszt)" is more difficult because of the wide range the pianist is playing. Liszt had big hands and could play a wide range. not all pianists have wide hands. your range is how far your thumb and pinky fingers are and the length they can stretch.

[Xuboy007]

totentanz. by a lot. i played both :) and totentanz is definately harder :\ its more demanding onthe stamina side as well as technically

[PjGalapatz]

ahh...i see!! thnx 4 d point anyway!!! but i thnk Rhapsody on a theme of paganini is more beautiful especially the 18th which is very heavenly. But i also like the totentanz bec. itz very challenging

[fortissimo25]

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! i luv liszt! and pace!

[sonetica]

It's phantastic!!! This guy is very great pianist!

[jannokas85]

What an absolutely wonderful technique! Glad he showed more emotion in his playing towards the end. Gotta put up a show!

[OrangeSodaKing]

is this harder than ravel's scarbo?

[toneeeeeee]

No way. I'm learning this now and it's very pianistic (as Liszt tends to be). Scarbo is a monster and will swallow you before you even start fighting it. I don't think I'll ever be trying that one.

[OrangeSodaKing]

that's what i thought. some other guy said this was waay harder, and i was like "what? i don't believe that"

[cdpiano27]

Try La Valse, I think technically it is similar difficulty level to scarbo. But scarbo has a wider range of color and tone.

[vocalpianist]

La Valse is soooo hard. But I want to learn that and the scarbo very badly. My friend plays the Gaspard de la Nuit, she says she is constantly at war with Scarbo

[beyond9001]

has anyone heard the Zimermann recording of Totentanz? also very good, although some of his tempo is faster that I would have liked; but overall, very well played; also has one of the fastest cadenza runs in the intro.

[ALFcorey]

Yes.

I Listened the K.Zimermann performance of Totentanz. It is fantastic.

[mathpianist93]

This guy brings the piece out ALIVE!

[rotopope]

This guy is a great painter too. I've seen him on TV.

[SteinwayPianist]

hahaha

[hadam8]

nem hiszem, hogy elfelejtik a magyarok a zeneszerzőjüket, csak nem biztos, hogy írnak ide...

[Martinus988]

Még senki nem írt magyarul. Legalábbis nekem nem tűnt fel. Kár hogy a magyarok elfelejtik a saját zeneszerzőjüket, pedig ez egy nagyon szép darab!! :-)

Nobody has written in Hungarian. (or i didn't find any hungarian comment). It's sad, that hungarians forget their composer, Liszt. But it's (and He is)very excellent!!! :-)

[FranzLiszt2]

1 mistake in 1:05 but excellent, (the best performance of this piece so far)

[beyond9001]

yea, that -is- a tricky part, hafta pray you hit all the chords right, big jumpssss hehe, but when done right, a spectacular and grand sound!!!

[maxi937]

This pianist is excellent.

[Nickcarryinganak47]

that's the music.

[Jewel724]

Such as this, existing in our world, is proof enough of God.

[fatinaLushina]

mitico mitico mitico e ancora mitico.......è uno dei miei pianisti preferiti!lo adoro!

[keepitacrime]

ill remember this forever,,,amazing!

[jessenemitz]

second only to cziffra's version.

[ArcaneOmen2041]

This might sound weird, but parts of this sound like they were taken & used for Disney's "BEauty & the Beast".

[RndmG]

why is this thumbs downed? i dont know b&the b well enough to know if this is used

Because there is no comparison between the two! It was an ignor